Magnify the Feeling
Hurry up and away!
They'll tell your story
how they want to tell it.
The algorithm
of the sun and moon.
Where the planets were
when I first saw you.
I knew invisible
was visible now
and then
you told me...
the words were
swirling 'round
like yellow leaves.
I saw divisions
of labor. The cultures...
Beware!
Your kind's
not welcome here.
Magnify the feeling.
In a matter of seconds
I had circumnavigated the globe.
The web of awareness
bore down and through me.
Other choices stood out
with those of migration.
I too had crossed borders
yearning for security, warmth,
comfort, anything where I was
not running for my life.
Suppressing my very being.
Restricted by man
and the whims of manhood
magnified by their fractal bigotry
enacted by fear, ignorance, comfort ,
and the privilege of being...